Permanent hair-waving method and preparation



Patented Nov. 4, 1924.

PERMANENT HAIR-WAVING METHOD AND PREPARATION.

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To all whom may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURA MCQUILLAN, a citizen of the United States. and a resident of Fort Sill, Comanche County, State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Im rovements in Permanent Hair- Vvaving .L ethods and Preparations, of which the following is a full and clear specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple preparation and method for permanently waving human hair, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

The main preparation I use consists of potassium carbonate and water, preferably in the form of about one pound of potassium carbonate to two gallons of water, thoroughly mixed. After the strand of hair is wound upon a curling pin of the usual well-known type, I saturate the wound hair with my Weak preparation; then a thick coating of pure lanolin is applied directly upon the wound hair; then I cover the coated hair with a strip of cotton cloth and wet flannel, absorbent cotton or other fabrip; then the package thus formed is inserted in a tubular electrical heater in the usual manner to convert the water into steam, and this steam is allowed to act during a period of about ten minutes.

The foregoing treatment produces a permanent curl or wave in the hair andat the same time the lanolin is steamed into the hair. I use potassium carbonate because Application filed March 14, 1924. Serial No. 699,853.

it works perfectly, with lanolin, which, according to my experience, is the only oil which will add to the curliness of the hair. The harmlessness of my Weak solution of potassium carbonate can be seen from the fact that it can be used without oil. Any oil other than lanolin will uncurl hair. Lanolin being a fat extracted from wool, which is naturally curly hair, when steamed into the hair after the same has been made receptive by the softening agent and steam, makes the hair more curly and as soft as naturally curly hair.

What I claim as new is:

1. The method herein described of permanently waving human hair consisting in satuniting the hair while wound-upon a corepin with potassium, carbonate diluted in water; then applying to the hair thus saturated a coating of lanolin; then winding a strip of wet fabric upon the lanolin coating; and then steaming the hair while thus enclosed in the fabric.

2. The method herein described of. pennanently waving hair consisting in first satu rating a curled portion of the hair with a lotion, then applying, directly to the hair lanolin, then encasing the hairin a wet fabric, and finally steaming the whole to convert the moisture in the fabric into steam.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

LAURA MoQUILLAN. 

